DMD 1.019 and 2.003 releases

[Walter Bright]

Derek Parnell wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:22:32 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> Don Clugston wrote:
>>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>>> Don Clugston wrote:
>>>>> I'm having trouble understanding the difference between "isScalar", 
>>>>> "isArithmetic", and "isIntegral". Is this table correct?
>>>>>
>>>>> int uint real wchar
>>>>> Y   Y    Y    N     isArithmetic
>>>>> N   N    Y    N     isFloating
>>>>> Y   Y    N    Y     isIntegral
>>>>> Y   Y    Y    Y     isScalar
>>>>> N   Y    N    N     isUnsigned
>>>>>
>>>>> ----------------
>>>> wchar is arithmetic and unsigned.
>>> OK. Then is there any difference between scalar and arithmetic ?
>> scalar includes pointers.
> 
> And yet one can do (some) arithmetic on pointers ... !?

Yes. These definitions of integral, arithmetic, and scalar are common in 
C derived languages (and is defined in the C standard, too).